His chains were broken, and at twenty-nine years of
age Tom began life over again. He is not the man he might have been,
but no one doubts his loyalty to the King. His place in the prayer
circle is never vacant, and you can always find, him in the ranks of
those whose sworn purpose it is to slay Tom's old master, King Alcohol!
STEVEN LAWRENCE, AMERICAN.
BY BARBARA YECHTON.
Stevie's papa usually wrote his name in the hotel registers as "Edward
H. Lawrence, New York City, U. S. A.," but Stevie always entered
his--and he wouldn't have missed doing it for anything--as "Steven
Lawrence, American."
When Kate and Eva teased him about it, he would say: "Why, anybody
could come from New York--an Englishman or a German or a
Frenchman--without being born there, don't you see? but I'm a real
out-and-out American, born there, and a citizen and everything, and I
just want all these foreigners to know it, 'cause I think America's the
greatest country in the world." Then the little boy would straighten
his slender figure and toss back his curly hair with a great air of
pride, which highly amused his two sisters.
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